Summary of Tom Sancton's The Last Baron

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In the 1970s, Baron Empain was the head of an industrial empire that comprised 174 companies and employed 136,000 workers in fields ranging from mining and metallurgy to banking, heavy construction, shipbuilding, armaments, and nuclear energy. #2 France was experiencing a decade of political transition. The turmoil caused by the Paris-centered student uprising of May 1968 had settled down, though it hastened C